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title: With a drawn sword hanging over her, the enchantress would readily h… — Tanglewood Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With a drawn sword hanging over her, the enchantress would readily have consented to do as much good as she had hitherto done mischief, however little she might like such employment. Who acts: drawn sword, bird. A sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4, with i
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# Tanglewood Tales, Circe's Palace., part 4, sentence 78

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With a drawn sword hanging over her, the enchantress would readily have consented to do as much good as she had hitherto done mischief, however little she might like such employment.

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**Who acts:** drawn sword, bird · **What happens:** draw, hang, consent, do, like · **To what, where:** enchantress, good, mischief, such employment

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This is a sentence of «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Circe's Palace., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drawn sword, bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg976:18:78
# text = With a drawn sword hanging over her, the enchantress would readily have consented to do as much good as she had hitherto done mischief, however little she might like such employment.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	consented	consent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	as	as	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	hitherto	hitherto	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
25	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	however	however	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
32	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	employment	employment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hang** | gerund | a drawn sword *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over bird | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over she=Location |
| 3 | **consent** | would · perfect · passive |  | the enchantress |  |  |  | with a drawn sword; readily *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | good |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
| 5 | **do** | past · perfect | bird | mischief |  |  |  | hitherto *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality |
| 6 | **like** | might | bird | such employment |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot employment=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Tanglewood Tales» by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Project Gutenberg book 976 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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